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Orlando’s Super Nintendo World delayed until 2025

IbizaPocholo

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Construction on Orlando’s new Universal theme park has restarted following delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally slated to open in 2023, Epic Universe — which will include Orlando’s own Super Nintendo World — is now scheduled to open in early 2025, according to Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings, as reported by the Orlando Sentinel.

Universal released a statement following Demings’ remarks, noting that construction has begun “immediately, but is expected to take several months before reaching full-speed as Universal re-staff for the project and reassembles it vendor and contractor teams.” The company’s statement did not give a new time frame for the park’s opening; we’ve reached out for comment, and we’ll update this article with any information we receive.

Epic Universe will eventually be Universal’s third theme park in Orlando, reportedly with shopping, restaurants, and hotels. The site is expected to fill a 750-acre facility. Universal has not laid out explicit plans for the Orlando site.
 

MrMephistoX

Member
You would think not having any guests would speed up construction? Like I’m kind of shocked Disney didn’t take advantage of the pandemic to do a ton of improvements.
 

THE DUCK

voted poster of the decade by bots
This is actually good news, it was on indefinite hold. They are breaking ground again, this new park is as big as the other 2 universal parks combined. Universal is really putting thier money where thiet mouthes are with this park.
 

Pagusas

Elden Member
You would think not having any guests would speed up construction? Like I’m kind of shocked Disney didn’t take advantage of the pandemic to do a ton of improvements.
Taking a concept from idea, to design, to approval, to budget and bidding, to engineering and testing, then to actual construction can take years. No one on the planet expected COVID to shut things down for so long, thus no one had the ability to plan ahead for the opportunities such a shut down would open up.

You know what also should have been happening during the shutdown? Massive infrastructure work, the NYC subways should have been shut down and worked on, bridges and airports should have been renovated. It’s sad we couldn’t have been faster at taking advantage of the few good things about the shutdown. Just too many unknowns at the time to do it.
 

carlosrox

Banned
Delays caused by COVID?

COVID must be killing a lot of people working on the park, damn!
 
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Darklor01

Might need to stop sniffing glue
The new Legoland NY park went through a lot to finally get approval and everything for years. Lots of communities don’t want a tourist destination in their back yard causing traffic and other issues. So, years and years go by and they’re finally ready to open and the Covid knocked those plans back for over another year. I can easily see how this park could take up to four more years before it opens.
 
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